RedOnion

SpaceBody

Celestial body. (SpaceBody selected not to conflict with KSP CelestialBody.)

Types:

• Atmosphere: Atmosphere

Instance Properties:

• native: CelestialBody - [Unsafe] KSP API
• name: string - Name of the body.
• body: SpaceBody - Celestial body this body is orbiting.
• position: Vector - Position of the body (relative to active ship).
• velocity: Vector - Current orbital velocity (relative to parent body, zero for Sun/Kerbol).
• bodies: ReadOnlyList[SpaceBody] - Orbiting celestial bodies.
• radius: double - Radius of the body [m].
• mass: double - Mass of the body [kg].
• gravParameter: double - Standard gravitational parameter (μ = GM) [m³/s²]
• mu: double - Standard gravitational parameter (μ = GM) [m³/s²]
• atmosphere: Atmosphere - Atmosphere parameters of the body.
• atm: Atmosphere - Atmosphere parameters of the body. (Alias to atmosphere)
• orbit: OrbitInfo - [WIP] Orbit parameters. Null for Sun/Kerbol.
• period: TimeDelta - Period of current orbit in seconds. Alias to orbit.period. NaN/none for Sun/Kerbol.
• timeToAp: TimeDelta - Eta to apoapsis in seconds. Alias to orbit.timeToAp. NaN/none for Sun/Kerbol.
• timeToPe: TimeDelta - Eta to periapsis in seconds. Alias to orbit.timeToPe. NaN/none for Sun/Kerbol.
• timeAtAp: TimeStamp - Time at apoapsis. Alias to orbit.timeAtAp. NaN/none for Sun/Kerbol.
• timeAtPe: TimeStamp - Time at periapsis. Alias to orbit.timeAtPe. NaN/none for Sun/Kerbol.
• eccentricity: double - Eccentricity of the orbit. [0, +inf) NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• inclination: double - Inclination of the orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• semiMajorAxis: double - Semi-major axis of the orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• semiMinorAxis: double - Semi-minor axis of the orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• apoapsis: double - Height above ground of highest point of the orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• periapsis: double - Height above ground of lowest point of the orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• apocenter: double - Highest distance between center of orbited body and any point of the orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• pericenter: double - Lowest distance between center of orbited body and any point of the orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• trueAnomaly: double - Angle in degrees between the direction of periapsis and the current position. Zero at periapsis, 180 at apoapsis. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• meanAnomaly: double - Angle in degrees between the direction of periapsis and the current position extrapolated on circular orbit. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• lan: double - Longitude of ascending node. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• argumentOfPeriapsis: double - Argument of periapsis. Angle from ascending node to periapsis. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.
• aop: double - Argument of periapsis. Angle from ascending node to periapsis. NaN for Sun/Kerbol.

Instance Methods:

• positionAt(): Vector, time TimeStamp
  • [WIP] Predicted position at specified time.
• velocityAt(): Vector, time TimeStamp
  • [WIP] Predicted velocity at specified time.
• timeAtTrueAnomaly(): TimeStamp, trueAnomaly double
  • [WIP] Get time at true anomaly (absolute time of angle from direction of periapsis). NaN/none for Sun/Kerbol.
• timeToTrueAnomaly(): TimeDelta, trueAnomaly double
  • [WIP] Get time to true anomaly (relative time of angle from direction of periapsis). [0, period) NaN/none for Sun/Kerbol.